I just want to be written about as a normal artist.
Robert Mapplethorpe

A great artist is never poor.
Isak Dinesen

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
Novalis

I just asked myself, what piece of that man's soul did he just chew off and swallow to get next week's assignment? You know, just to live, just to work as an artist, or to feed the family?
Paul Haggis

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.
Brandon Boyd

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.
Jacques Barzun

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Novalis

So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.
Neil Gaiman

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.
Andres Serrano

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
Ashley Montagu

One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist.
Andres Serrano

I am an artist first and a photographer second.
Andres Serrano

I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.
Whoopi Goldberg

People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.
Lenny Kravitz

The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.
Lenny Kravitz

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.
Ethel Barrymore

I have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given me the opportunity to manage the companies I have contributed to my whole career. I feel this is a giant step for me and the entire artist community.
Jay-Z

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
Friedrich Schiller

I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.
Jeanne Moreau